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The Skull Nebula, formally known as NGC 246, is captured in a new image from the European Southern Observatory using the Very Large Telescope.

All 1200 islands that make up the Republic of Maldives are featured in this spectacular image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission....

NASA has three new Halloween posters depicting strange space phenomena in classic horror movie styles and they're available for free.

Only the two Voyager spacecraft have ever been there, and it took than more than 30 years of supersonic travel. It lies well past the orbit of Pluto, through the rocky Kuiper belt, and on for four times that distance. Th...

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 Commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Kate Rubins of NASA and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos discussed the upcoming 20th anniversary of a per...

DoD announced Oct. 30 it has established the office of the assistant secretary of defense for space policy. SpaceNews

From studying light pollution to growing tomato seeds that have flown in orbit, these citizen science projects can help you and your kids enjoy the cosmos at home.

Are spirits amongst the clouds of Jupiter? The answer might be yes! A recent publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets has identified what appear to be "Sprites" in the Jovian Atmosphere. In European Fo...

On Oct. 31, 2000 to be exact, three men boarded a Soyuz spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for Expedition 1. Here's their look back.

The spacecraft will deliver the pristine material from asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023 --

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

Hundreds of activists gathered outside SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, CA to protest a launch for the Turkish government on Thursday (Oct. 29).

Week in images: 26-30 October 2020 Discover our week through the lens